The Way Of All Flesh

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: Harmondsworth
Publisher Year: 1979
Edition: Reprint

Description: 443 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them. With "The Way of All Flesh", Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butlers death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth in the bosom of a Christian family. With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a familys life through several generations.

ISBN: 0140430121